Ivy League son just disclosed he's taking five years to graduate.

[Anonymous]

Anyone sugarcoating must not familiar with Ivies. It's going to be super awkward in May when all of his friends are graduating and moving into adulthood and he is the bum in street clothes with another year to go.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Anyone sugarcoating must not familiar with Ivies. It's going to be super awkward in May when all of his friends are graduating and moving into adulthood and he is the bum in street clothes with another year to go.

No it isn’t.

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Anonymous wrote:I thought the five-year plan was normal nowadays, especially for engineering.

Oh no not at all. Schools care about their stats. 92% graduation rate in 4 years at MIT.

MIT was quick to push someone out onto medical leave if and when they needed it rather than have them fail out.

MIT’s 4 yr is 87%

In other words, 13% of MIT leaves to found a company or with an offer from tech, drop out, or health leave — not 13% healthy underachievers just randomly quitting cyber courses and falling behind.

No because their graduation rate in 6 years is 92% … so 8% start companies or drop
Out all together, 4 % take longer than 4 years

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Anonymous wrote:Smart kids loaded up on easy online courses to graduate early.

And what did they actually learn? Oh, the ONLY goal was to graduate early. I get it. The goal wasn't to gain any knowledge or skills. I pity their future employers.

My niece at Vanderbilt only has to take three courses total between August to May of her senior year, so her summer internship is paying her to work remote full-time all school year. I’d say that’s a far better position than OP’s son finds himself in.

Congrats to your niece. That's awesome....but really...how is this helpful to the OP? Bragging about a kid who did great in COVID as an example to compare to her son, who clearly is having some sort of trouble (whether it be COVID-related or not).

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone sugarcoating must not familiar with Ivies. It's going to be super awkward in May when all of his friends are graduating and moving into adulthood and he is the bum in street clothes with another year to go.

You sound SO obnoxious. Thank God this kid does not have YOU for a parent.

So, him doing for few more months what they JUST finished doing, makes him a bum and them some type of golden children?

Too bad that an adult thinks the world is this black and white.

That must be SUPER awkward for you (LOL, you sound like an overgrown Valley Girl!)

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Anonymous wrote:It is a pandemic. Some kids took gap years last year. The road in life is not straight and having hard conversations is a life skill he will need for the rest of his life.

I take it cost is not an issue for your family?

This. And if cost is not an issue, I would 100% have zero problem with this. Last year+ was a struggle for so many, even though everything looks OK on the outside.

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Anonymous wrote:I thought the five-year plan was normal nowadays, especially for engineering.

it is very much the norm. Most kids don't graduate in 4 years anymore.

My brother studied engineering and it took him 5 years as well.

There's nothing wrong with it.

[Anonymous]

OP, can you please weigh in and elaborate on the financial consequences of this? Did he drop classes and get money back (I'm guessing not or you would have known because you would have gotten the money, right?)? Does he really have to do a full year?

I'd be PISSED if my son did this and expected me to shell out an extra seventy thousand. I'd do something so that that had a financial consequence for him - loan the money to him with signed papers, change my will to deduct for that extra year and let him know what I did, etc.

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Anonymous wrote:I thought the five-year plan was normal nowadays, especially for engineering.

it is very much the norm. Most kids don't graduate in 4 years anymore.

My brother studied engineering and it took him 5 years as well.

There's nothing wrong with it.

All these state school people need to stop weighing in. THey don't know what they are talking about. At Ivies people do NOT take more than four years to graduate during normal times. That is considered weird.

[Anonymous]

The most awkward thing is when they have a different number after their name in the alumni magazine. They will be lumped in with the following class in the class notes, and people will be mildly confused because "I thought he was in our class/where is Larlo at the reunion". Of course, the reunion committee will let him show up to the class he's most connected with.

As you can guess, none of this is a big deal. Relax.

[Anonymous]

Can he do it all in the fall semester and walk with his class in 2022? It also should save some money. He'll probably have to live off campus. Unless he has a massively stacked trust that's paying for his education, this should have been a discussion, not an announcement.

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Anonymous wrote:I thought the five-year plan was normal nowadays, especially for engineering.

it is very much the norm. Most kids don't graduate in 4 years anymore.

My brother studied engineering and it took him 5 years as well.

There's nothing wrong with it.

All these state school people need to stop weighing in. They don't know what they are talking about. At Ivies people do NOT take more than four years to graduate during normal times. That is considered weird.

+1. RBG's husband went through literal cancer treatment back in the 50s and still finished Harvard Law School on time.

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Anonymous wrote:I thought the five-year plan was normal nowadays, especially for engineering.

it is very much the norm. Most kids don't graduate in 4 years anymore.

My brother studied engineering and it took him 5 years as well.

There's nothing wrong with it.

All these state school people need to stop weighing in. They don't know what they are talking about. At Ivies people do NOT take more than four years to graduate during normal times. That is considered weird.

+1. RBG's husband went through literal cancer treatment back in the 50s and still finished Harvard Law School on time.

All OP’s son needs is a girlfriend as smart as RGB to attend his classes, take all his notes and do all his work, lIke RGB did.

[Anonymous]

He will know people- some students take a 5th year to get a masters.

[Anonymous]

Also, can he take a class at NOVA over winter break?